I've taken it maybe a bit further, and choreographed what I would love to see in a Queen concert, right down to the details of pyrotechnics and key transitions. Like it? Think I'm crazy? Have at it.
1. Seven Seas of Rhye (curtain falls when Freddie sings the first "Seven Seas of Rhye")
2. Tie Your Mother Down
3. One Vision
4. Who Wants to Live Forever
5. Somebody to Love
6. You're My Best Friend
7. Killer Queen
8. The March of the Black Queen (the full song, not a medley)
9. Don't Stop Me Now
10. I Want to Break Free
11. Under Pressure
12. '39
13. Brighton Rock (does not count against the 25)
14. Love of My Life
15. Radio Ga-Ga
16. I Want It All
17. Hammer to Fall
18. Dragon Attack
19. Fat Bottomed Girls
20. Another One Bites the Dust
21. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
22. Bohemian Rhapsody (with a piano solo intro)
23. The Show Must Go On
--encore--
24. We Will Rock You
25. In the Lap of the Gods Revisited (see notes for transition details)
26. We Are the Champions
27. God Save the Queen (Does not count against the 25)
Notes:
-Since this is a dream setlist, Freddie Mercury is my frontman. No offense to Paul Rodgers, who did an excellent job in the role, but Freddie *owns* most of these songs.
-Freddie would not be playing piano during "Seven Seas of Rhye," as he would need to be center-stage for the dramatic intro (right after he sings the first "The seven seas of Rhye!" and the guitar hits).
-The band would just keep playing through the end of "Tie Your Mother Down," at which point Freddie would do the introductions.
-As you can probably tell from the song order, I agonized over whether or not to make a medley of "Killer Queen," "March of the Black Queen," and either "You're My Best Friend" or "Lap of the Gods Revisited." YMBF didn't give me any really good transition points, and I really wanted "Gods" at the end of the album, for reasons I'll go into later. Beyond that, I think that with technology being what it is today, Queen could pull off "March of the Black Queen" live, perhaps in a "Bohemian Rhapsody"-esque form, with part of the song being removed completely, and parts being done on tape to a dark stage.
-I stumbled across the transition from "Dragon Attack" to "Fat Bottomed Girls" when my iPod was set to shuffle one day, and maybe I'm crazy, but I've loved the effect ever since.
-Hardest cuts to make: "These Are the Days of Our Lives" and "A Kind of Magic"
-My setlist was (obviously) influenced most heavily by Wembley '86 and Q+PR.
-Songs which use pyrotechnics:
Seven Seas of Rhye (a nice bang of an intro as the curtain falls and the band enters)
Tie Your Mother Down (deep boom at the final drum hit)
Bohemian Rhapsody (the usual explosion as the band comes back on for the hard rock section; a curtain of white sparks behind the stage right after "Any way the wind blows" gives way to cymbals and a sustained guitar chord, ending at the gong)
In the Lap of the Gods Revisited (see the setlist for an exact description)
-I was experimenting with songs between WWRY and WATC a while back, and settled on "Killer Queen" and "In the Lap of the Gods Revisited" as two of my favorites. Ultimately, I prefer "Gods" there. The music goes from the heavy beats of WWRY almost instantly into a voice accompanied only by piano singing a soft melody. The intensity of that song, obviously, increases until the crowd is fully involved, and then there's the sudden ending, punctuated by large smoke bombs (similar the ones seen at the end of the 1975 Hammersmith Odeon Christmas concert). The room stays dark and the band silent for 30 seconds or so, before Freddie begins singing WATC and the spotlight shines on him at the piano, with the rest of the lights gradually coming up as well.
Dead On Time
We Will Rock You (Fast)
Let Me Entertain You
Dancer
White Queen
Spread Your Wings
Jealousy
Somebody To Love
Im In Love with My Car/Fun It/ Loser In The End
Brighton Rock
Long Away
39
Love Of My Life
Mad The Swine
Las Palabas De Amor
Get Down Make Love
White Man
Guitar Solo (Chinese Torture)
Prophets Song
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Man On The Prowl
-encore wait-
Stone Cold Crazy
Cool Cat
-encore wait 2-
Bohemian Rhapsody
We Will Rock You
We Are The Champions
Sheer Heart Attack (Brian comes out with a different guitar so they can smash stuff and wreck things onstage for the end)